Oh really? I thought that fat/fat32 was also Microsoft's property, yet support for both happens to be in the stock Linux kernel. Greg > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:01:59 -0500 >Subject: Re: what linux should I use? >It can't possibly be in the stock kernels because the Linux kernel is >licensed as GPL, and NTFS is the private property of Microsoft.